Sizing Up The Competition

I was working on rewriting the \”See Also\”: page here at LISNews, and it occured to me that this would make a nice little story.


LISNews isn\’t the only place on the internet for L.I.S. oriented news. Now, I know you\’re thinking, \”But Blake, it\’s my favorite, and I\’m sure it\’s the best!\”.
Well… you\’re probably right, but, let\’s just give the others a chance, they are worth a read now and then…
Read on to see what else the WWW has to offer!

I was working on rewriting the \”See Also\”: page here at LISNews, and it occured to me that this would make a nice little story.


LISNews isn\’t the only place on the internet for L.I.S. oriented news. Now, I know you\’re thinking, \”But Blake, it\’s my favorite, and I\’m sure it\’s the best!\”.
Well… you\’re probably right, but, let\’s just give the others a chance, they are worth a read now and then…
Read on to see what else the WWW has to offer!After Steve defected from LISNews, he started Library Stuff
Rory runs Library Juice it\’s composed mostly of email culled from approximately three dozen listservs. It\’s a super site!


Stephanie A Davidson calls her\’brary blog
 just a little semi-regular dose of bookish stuff from your friendly neighborhood librarian

The AcqWeblog
by Anna Belle Leiserson, does \”Web News for Acquiring Minds\”

Craig Jensen\’sBookNotes does books, and more than a little political commentary

Chris (?) does Caterblog Where the librarian uses the f-word. A lot

The famous Don Saklad has his own blog at Guide
to Problematical Library Use

leddy
weblog
from the University of Windsor, says they are running an experiment in a local current awareness service.

Liblog
from the Redwood City Library focuses mostly on geeky stuff

librarian.net, if you\’ve never been there, you\’ve never been on the web

Library Lovers\’
LiveJournal
a free flowing and very interesting collection of bloggings
Juanita & Colleen are
NewBreed Librarian they have a monthly zine, and daily news updates.

T.J. Sondermann is a library_geek, there\’s a few of \”Us\” out there!
Ace web designer and Rogue Librarian Carrie Bickner runs a fine site.
LibraryPlanet has a nice GreyMatter blog going on. I\’m not sure who runs it, though.


NewPages WebLog from Casey Hill, covers it all. The Alternative Guide to New Books, Magazines & Music along with News from the Net of Interest to Booksellers, Publishers, Librarians, Writers & Readers.

Research Buzz if you do any regular searching on the web, you need to visit often.

The CPL Internet Gazzette
– A librarians guide to what\’s cool and useful on the web


LibraryHq LibraryHQ is the librarians portal to the internet. Resources for the wired librarian.


Last, and not at all least, Virtual Acquisition Shelf & News Desk from Gary Price has an incredible amount of information every week.



There\’s a few more floating around out there I\’ve missed, but that should keep you busy. If I missed any, feel free to let me know.